May honors is very competitve. Top 2% is outstanding and act is good but if there’s anyway to take again to bump to 32… that would be ideal. @52AG82 had her DD in Mays honors. Not sure what her stats were incoming but she crushed it while at Mays!
If wantjnf a specific major/focus in Mays like finance, MIS or Acct, not sure I’d go for honors.
A 30 is definitely a solid score…but won’t get student into BH. BH is looking for:
*top 1-4%
*Nat Merit S/F or Commended and/or 35 or 36 ACT
*off the charts resume-leadership, awards, community service
Most are Val/Sal, Class President, Student Body President, Eagle Scout, drill team colonel, multiple varsity letterman, state & national level award winners, small business owner, 100’s of legit community service hours- that type of stuff… PLUS all of the above.
2,000+ apply for 85ish spots. Highly competitive*
Curious as why one wouldn’t go for honors with those specific majors. I thought that with Business honors they dual major in both honors and one of the others? She’s not committed to a specific focus but leaning toward one or two of them. I really like how it’s set up that they get to have the first year before deciding.
@Bb49 BH is the only way to double major in Mays-all graduate BH (it’s a degree, not a program) and can also double major in FINC/Acct/MGMT/MIS/Supply Chain.
At my Aggie’s 2019 grad, I think only a handful (like, <5) didn’t double major. Many, many BH do PPA. The BH classes are much smaller, usually the best profs. BH does require a Capstone project, but they work on it for 2+ years.
BH or not, Mays is outstanding! So many orgs to join, ways to get involved, special programs and certificates, 4+1 and more!
Please encourage your student to go in with an open mind, not only willing to go Acct route (example). Mays is tried & true, and by requiring students to take the ‘Big 5’ before declaring their major is for a reason-to expose them to all avenues of Mays business.
All Mays students enter as BUAD, regardless of intent or hours.
Thank you–great info and so glad to hear confirmation of it being such a great program! We were able to attend a Mays specific tour and info session a few months ago and were very impressed.
You’re right, they do (and most do) double major. It is an exceptional and elite program. I just feel if you’re going to do Bus. Honors and double major in Acct for example… might be better use of time to go the PPA route/5+ finance route/ (there are more) to set yourself apart to be as marketable as possible post grad.
My 2 cents and literally may only be worth 1 cent.
Yes that definitely makes sense and is a good point! College is already a big transition as it is so taking the mindset that she’ll end up where she is meant to as far as honors vs no honors.
We are out of state and I’m trying to manage expectations, he is applying for engineering. My son is from a prestigious high school in our state that gives Latin honors instead of ranking. He’s got a 4.5 gpa (so summa cum laude) and a 31 ACT (33 superscore but I know, TAMU doesn’t do that.) My question is does TAMU look at the stem only ACT (31) or each score individually; math 35, English 34, reading 30 and science 26. I’m trying to talk him into retaking to bring up the science score; previously on a different exam he scored a 31. He does have another composite of 31 with more even scores overall but he only scored a 29 on the math section for that test. What are his chances overall being admitted to CS engineering out of state?
We are OOS. After 2023, TAMU eliminated the “Maroon Merit” scholarship for OOS students, which did not qualify for the OOS tuition waiver. It appears that there is a scholarship that I don’t recall seeing when my son started at TAMU in 2022 called the “Opportunity Award” that is available to both resident and OOS students that would have started with Class of 2028 admission cycle. Does anyone know if this scholarship is considered “competitive” and then you receive the OOS waiver if you are awarded at least $4000 from this scholarship? My DD25 has TAMU on her application list at the moment…
What’s his highest math course? They’ll look at rigor as well as scores.
I have no doubt he’ll get some offer for engineering and if applying early, he has a great shot at full admit vs Galveston or Blinn TEAB. M
Wouldn’t hurt to get the act score up tho. But I wouldn’t wait to apply til scores come in.
@PurpleSunset24 my Class of 2023 Aggie received an Opportunity Award, so it isn’t new. Hers was a 1 year, $1,000 scholarship.
Looks like student could be eligible for OOS tuition waver…IF they received at least 4K.
I wouldn’t hold my breath…
And it isn’t stackable with other awards/scholarships.
@Oosmom1 they will definitely look at each individual score, and 26 Science won’t be great for Engineering. Has he taken SAT? For sure have him take again. He really needs a 33/1450 to be competitive, with strong math & science scores. 35 and 26 are way too far apart, they need to be close/even to each other.
Like @Christi1993 said-they will also look at highest level of math & science courses taken. Rigor is critical.
Be ready to apply in August, no later.
Because of Texas auto-admit laws (massive state and federal funding on TAMU and UT system), OOS needs better scores and rank than already competitive Texas students. Assuming your student is top 10% plus your student score has good shot in admission or TEAB. Have AP Calc BC ready will be vital. If not in Junior year still take in senior year. Even though they don’t look at score still take the College Board test.
TAMU has ETAM.
I think it can still be worth a shot for @Oosmom1. Does your school use Naviance or SCOIR? I’m not convinced that OOS needs better scores and rank looking at our OOS HS’s SCOIR account. Ours shows a wide range of GPA/score combos that have been admitted to Texas A&M in the past 3 years, including some that were probably near the 50% rank (if our school ranked). SCOIR says that 62% of applicants from our HS were accepted in last 3 cycles. I wonder if they want some OOS students, but maybe the yield rate isn’t amazing for the ones they accept given the very high cost of OOS tuition? I’m aware of my son and another student from our very large competitive HS that both started at TAMU in Fall 2022, but both were awarded OOS waivers.
Both were also admitted to UT-Austin, but the OOS waiver at TAMU over the $0 offered from UT, along with how amazing the TAMU community has been, made the choice extremely easy for mine. Our school routinely sends students to UT-Austin every year as well…and SCOIR shows a 16% admit rate out of our HS to there.
Did not imply not worth a shot. For college application, it is important to be practical. The data @Oosmom1 provided so far would really be getting TEAB. Chance will increase if student is NMSF/NMF.
It is important to understand what TEAB is, the timeline of getting offer, and what factors can increase the chance of earlier or priority admission. Parents in this forum in the last few years have seen many stressed until end of January with unrealistic expectation.
As for Naviance and SCOIR, these are data service companies. Scores may be little more trustworthy only if school counselors import data, and some years can be inaccurate when counselors turnover. College admission data is widely known to be inaccurate as those are students self-reported.
The only trustworthy number is the student demographics data in accountability report. In Fall 2023, of 71153 students at College Station Campus, 12865 were freshmen, only 553 were from out of state. (See below)
But I would say if both of your students gained admission to extremely difficult UT as OOS, TAMU would be plain sailing.
I could probably have worded my post better. There is another graphic in the TAMU accountability report that probably demonstrates what my theory is better. My theory is that TAMU doesn’t really give merit aid (except to a small category of OOS students that are NMSF or National recognition) in an amount that makes it competitive to convert the acceptances into enrollments. As a result, I think they may accept more OOS students than you would think in order to get the about 7% of OOS students that they have each year with many of those being full pay. But a lot of students are either not able to be full-pay or choose not to be when there are other fantastic options for a significantly lower annual cost.
In looking at the “Geographic Applied Admitted Enrolled”, our home state has an admittance rate of 55% for the year my son started (148 applied, 82 admitted, 28 enrolled). But in scanning quickly at some other states they all appear to have similar admittance rates. The enrollment strategy or institutional priorities clearly works for TAMU, as it appears they must be converting some of the NMSF/national recognition students along with some full-pay students in an amount that then doesn’t exceed the targets and law requirements to serve Texas students.
I don’t know where the other poster is from, but they can find the same table and figure out what the admission rate has typically been from their state. So I think that getting admitted from OOS is not necessarily difficult, but to plan for a likely reality that if TAMU is the preferred school for their student that they will likely be full-pay even if their student has exceptional statistics and receives merit everywhere else. Being full-pay may be okay especially if they are interested in one of the programs where TAMU really excels.
Student admission rate within each non-Texas state does not determine the difficulty of admission.
Rank and scores requirement for OOS applicants are indeed higher because only about 4.5% to 5% of freshmen spots for OOS.
Thank you for the stats and replies! It is so helpful to hear from you all! We live in Kansas. I have talked my son into taking the August SAT, he should score better because the math section is half of the score, compared to just 25% with the ACT. It is also shorter, which will benefit him; he is partially blind in one eye from a sports injury. He does struggle with stamina because of this and the science section is last on the ACT. He is taking AP Calc AB and AP Physics 2 next year. We realize the competition is stiff applying out of state and we respect that. When we visited A&M, the admissions representative told us if you didn’t get admitted with the in-state 10% auto admit rule, they made no distinction between in-state and out-of-state applications, they were all treated the same and at that point in-state was not given favorable consideration. I realize that this may or may not be accurate. We really liked A&M when we visited, it felt like home and we felt our son would fit in with the campus culture. We also felt A&M ran a pretty exceptional engineering department with lots of industry connections and opportunities that are lacking elsewhere. He will land on his feet somewhere, he does have a 33 superscore and the other schools on his list do all superscore.
Wish us luck!!
Have they posted the essay requirements (including engineering & engineering honors)?
@FriscoDad will know this. typically the main essay doesn’t change much and I’m going to assume that essay prompt is listed. As for engineering.. Frisco is will know if there will be any changes to that for this cycle.
